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“Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“[...] but perhaps no kindness was possible between owner and slave, only varying degrees of brutality?”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles … How the epithets pile up. We never called him any of those things; we called him ‘the butcher’.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences - and they don't have to be dramatic - when things begin to change; and you know there's no point ruminating about it, because thinking isn't going to help you understand. You're not ready to understand it yet; you have to live your way into the meaning.”
― Pat Barker, The Women of Troy